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LIGO detects a new gravitational wave
The newly observed ripple in spacetime will help us unlock some of the secrets of the Universe.
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Spotting lizards
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Wavelets catch Abel Prize
This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Yves Meyer for the development of an incredibly powerful mathematical tool.
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Riding the pilot wave
Pilot wave theory is an extension of quantum mechanics that doesn't exhibit any of that weird randomness or fuzziness. But that doesn't mean it's totally sane. Here is a quick introduction.
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Face fusion
The maths behind music has inspired software that can merge faces.
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Colouring by numbers: The Kochen-Specker theorem
The Kochen-Specker theorem shows that quantum mechanics is always going to be strange. Its proof is surprisingly simple!
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Rocks suggest there's chaos in the solar system
Patterns in a 87 million-year-old rock formation suggest that our solar system is chaotic.
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Strategic dating: The 37% rule
Are you stumped by the dating game? Never fear — Plus is here! This article looks at one of the central questions of dating: how many people should you date before settling for something serious?
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Hilbert's hotel
How to squeeze infinitely many new guests into a full hotel.
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Monkeys play the peanut lottery
A new study suggests that monkeys have a basic grasp of probabilities.
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Do we live in a hologram?
Physicists have discovered evidence that our Universe might be a giant hologram.
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What made the Moon?
New research suggests that our trusty companion may not have been the Earth's first, but formed from several smaller moonlets.